Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life. ~Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys." ~Harmon Killebrew
I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys." ~Harmon Killebrew
May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown
Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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